Movie toys almost here.

I did my rounds today looking for some Animated but was sadly disappointed. Here is the run down on what I found (I know this could be in the sightings forum, but I think it would be interesting to a wider audience) :

KMart has run down all current TF stock with no new toys being put out since Christmas. They have a large display of 2007 Supreme Bumblebees that are fresh meaning that they think buying new (old) stock is going to do better than Animated/Univers.

Target has fully stocked their shelves since I looked last week. The new stock is all 2007 movie lines, again new (old) toys. Where do they get this stuff from.

BigW has rearranged the transformers section to be about four times the size it was last week. It was almost totally empty. BigW has not had any new stock since October last year. Traditionally they have had some of the biggest Transformers displays. Back in energon they had sales like %50 off omega supreme. This really seems like they are putting all their eggs in the movie basket.

The shops I checked today were all in eastgardens NSW (I live in Australia) but on other occasions I have covered many similar shops in the eastern suburbs. . This shows the situation in Australia is going to be much worse than the US. At least you guys are getting some other toys at this stage.

I am about to dump all my available funds into online purchases of transformers. Bad luck for local retailers because this leaves little left for ROTF.

TRU: Not alot of TFA or TFU figures - just the usual peg/shelfwarmers. They have been getting in TFTM deluxes Wave 1 recently for a couple weeks in a row. They still have their TFTM exclusive voyager and ultra figures.

Walmart: Loaded on older TFA and barely any TFU at all. Sometimes a good place to hit for the TFU/TFA Legends class. Just recently got stuff like Inferno in stock.

Target: Lots of older TFA deluxes lately, due to their sale; but those are mostly pegwarming. Shelf space is still saturated with older voyagers and leader class.

Fred Meyers: The oldest stuff. You can still find Wave 1 material from TFA and TFU.

I lived very near there on Beach Street in Coogee for a few years. Now I live in Kensington. This is really a great place to get Transformers. It is the middle of the triangle of the City, Bondi Jn and Pagewood where large shops are. Also the high population density makes the volume of toys that pass through here high.

What I found interesting - my Kmart, in the US mind you, just redid their action figure shelves. They moved all the Transformers from the general aisle and stuck them where they keep the seasonal movie-related toys. And every tag where Universe stuff would have been? ROTF movie price tags.

Of course they don't have ROTF toys on the shelf, but it's neat and cool to see that the frenzy is approaching.

What I found interesting - my Kmart, in the US mind you, just redid their action figure shelves. They moved all the Transformers from the general aisle and stuck them where they keep the seasonal movie-related toys. And every tag where Universe stuff would have been? ROTF movie price tags.

Of course they don't have ROTF toys on the shelf, but it's neat and cool to see that the frenzy is approaching.

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Same here. I noticed that yesterday when I went to find the Transformer MM's.

I especially need to get Blackout. Dang it, I had two figures of him... the first one I accidentally dropped and he broke, and the second had a little deformity that hindered me from being able to transform him into copter mode completely.

I especially need to get Blackout. Dang it, I had two figures of him... the first one I accidentally dropped and he broke, and the second had a little deformity that hindered me from being able to transform him into copter mode completely.

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There's that upcoming Whirl repaint of the Evac retool of Blackout, unless you want the actual Blackout figure.